Non-traditional families People live the way they want and love who they want, we have no place to judge them for that. We should not take away any opportunities of adopting children because of their relationship statuses. Discrimination against non-traditional families and not allowing them to adopt children is morally wrong. The life of a child is a gift that every family who wants to have should be able to. Everyone should have the privilege to raise their own family and not be judged based on the race, religion, sexuality etc of the person or family, but based on the love and care the family could provide for the child. Families are being denied the pleasure of adopting and raising a child just because society views them as a non-traditional family. We should not have the right to take away a family or a person’s right to adopt children just because they are not the average people. Non-traditional families should be able to adopt children. A traditional family would be considered to be a married couple consisting of a male and a female. They are usually out of school and have jobs. Although this is the definition of a “traditional” family, a family, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is simply defined as “a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head”. These days the view on the typical American family has dramatically changed. Today families consist of all different types of people living under the same roof. In 1990, only 16% of all American families were living the way a traditional American family lived. Same sex couples have children, able adults are adopting children of a different race and culture, older women are becoming mothers, and single parents are more common; all of these are non-traditional families but they should still be allowed to adopt children if they are able to give proper care to the child. Embryo adoption is a growing idea and it is an example of a non-traditional adoption. Embryo adoption is when a couple tries to conceive and they don’t use all of the stored embryos. They have the choice to “have the remaining embryos destroyed, to donate them for research or implantation, or to make them available for adoption” (“Non-traditional Adoption”). People can have the choice to put the embryos up for adoption allowing a couple to go through pregnancy rather than adopt an already born child. Regular adoption does not allow the adoptive parents to be able to have the feeling of a true pregnancy. For most couples, they would like to have children of their own but are not able to, so a solution for them would be to go through embryo adoption. It has been done before and much success has come out of it. For one couple Dan and Marilou Lyons, they had agreed to attempt conception with a donated embryo. “It was very new but we got our son, Jared, out of it” (quoted by Marilou Lyons). This may be a non-traditional family, but if they are capable of raising the child properly then they should have the chance to do so. Not only are younger people being able to get pregnant, older people are becoming able to get pregnant and raise a family. Now younger eggs and healthy wombs allow older women to become mothers. Adriana Iliescu, a Romanian woman reported to be the world's oldest mom, gave birth at age sixty-six in 2005 (Mooney). Some people may disagree with the embryo adoption because it gives older women a chance to also get pregnant and possibly raise a child. Most clinics will not allow women over the age of 50 to become pregnant. Clinics make up their own requirements, but most of the time it all depends on the health of the woman. It is an expensive procedure to have done, but it could be worth it if someone ends up having a happy and healthy family. Some people may argue that it is unfair to allow older women to become pregnant because the child would grow up with their parents in the seventies and would miss out on a lot of fun activities that younger...

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